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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/netdev-features.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/netdev_features.h | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/ethtool.c | 1 |
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netdev-features.txt b/Documentation/networking/netdev-features.txt index 4b1c0dcef84c..7d2781230d30 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/netdev-features.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/netdev-features.txt @@ -152,3 +152,9 @@ NETIF_F_VLAN_CHALLENGED should be set for devices which can't cope with VLAN headers. Some drivers set this because the cards can't handle the bigger MTU. [FIXME: Those cases could be fixed in VLAN code by allowing only reduced-MTU VLANs. This may be not useful, though.] + +* rx-fcs + +This requests that the NIC append the Ethernet Frame Checksum (FCS) +to the end of the skb data. This allows sniffers and other tools to +read the CRC recorded by the NIC on receipt of the packet. diff --git a/include/linux/netdev_features.h b/include/linux/netdev_features.h index 77f5202977ce..d1331865f830 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdev_features.h +++ b/include/linux/netdev_features.h @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ enum { NETIF_F_RXCSUM_BIT, /* Receive checksumming offload */ NETIF_F_NOCACHE_COPY_BIT, /* Use no-cache copyfromuser */ NETIF_F_LOOPBACK_BIT, /* Enable loopback */ + NETIF_F_RXFCS_BIT, /* Append FCS to skb pkt data */ /* * Add your fresh new feature above and remember to update @@ -98,6 +99,7 @@ enum { #define NETIF_F_TSO __NETIF_F(TSO) #define NETIF_F_UFO __NETIF_F(UFO) #define NETIF_F_VLAN_CHALLENGED __NETIF_F(VLAN_CHALLENGED) +#define NETIF_F_RXFCS __NETIF_F(RXFCS) /* Features valid for ethtool to change */ /* = all defined minus driver/device-class-related */ diff --git a/net/core/ethtool.c b/net/core/ethtool.c index 3f79db1b612a..080161924a0d 100644 --- a/net/core/ethtool.c +++ b/net/core/ethtool.c @@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ static const char netdev_features_strings[NETDEV_FEATURE_COUNT][ETH_GSTRING_LEN] [NETIF_F_RXCSUM_BIT] = "rx-checksum", [NETIF_F_NOCACHE_COPY_BIT] = "tx-nocache-copy", [NETIF_F_LOOPBACK_BIT] = "loopback", + [NETIF_F_RXFCS_BIT] = "rx-fcs", }; static int ethtool_get_features(struct net_device *dev, void __user *useraddr) |